Quotes About Open-mindedness

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

I'm always looking to disprove what I think I know for sure. I call that learning.

When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

If more open-minded Christians, Jews, and Muslims were to sit down at a round table to try to achieve the holy grail of peace and unity, they would certainly have to be people of vision, willing to compromise.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

True power is learning how to put others first and not judge a book by its cover, so to speak.

Love refuses to deny or dismantle another's perspective simply because I don't share it.

Love means saying to someone else's story or pain or anger or experience: "I'm listening. Tell me more." Love refuses to deny or dismantle another's perspective simply because I don't share it.

Tell me more about that. Tell me how your thoughts progressed in this. I appreciate your experience with this. I'm listening. I hear what you are saying. I would love to learn from you. I care about how you feel and your perspective here. I understand that. I identify with that. What do you think of __________? I hadn't thought of it in that way. Thank you for that angle. Let me think about that a bit before I respond. Thanks for your transparency.

Stay away from people with tiny minds and tiny thoughts and start hanging out with people who see limitless possibility as the reality.

Be the alien for twenty-four hours and see what you come up with. 2.

Imagine what our world would be life if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren't threatened by other people's opinions or skin colours or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are.